Best way to remove certain values from a cloned record

gehorne

Was able to add a button to clone a record using the datatables example

https://editor.datatables.net/examples/api/duplicateButton.html

In my application I would like to change certain values to null to force the user to enter certain fields after the record is cloned. Any suggestions?

GEH

gehorne

Was able to set the value of the field using the field name.

Modified the sample new entry to read in my case:

editor
.create( {
title: 'Clone an existing record' ,
buttons: 'Create from existing'
} )
.set( values )
.field ( 'chemical_inv.ppe_requirements' ).val ( '' );

Thanks much, great product.

allan

Hi,

That looks like it is probably the best way to me. The other option would be to remove the chemical_inv.ppe_requirements from the values object by deleting it before calling set():

delete values[ 'chemical_inv.ppe_requirements' ];

Allan